We are in a verrrry similar boat! Always been into fiddling with computers but got my first job in tech around 2013. JavaScript and PHP. Only the past couple ye

We are in a verrrry similar boat! Always been into fiddling with computers but got my first job in tech around 2013. JavaScript and PHP. Only the past couple years have I messed around with Ruby + RoR and I love it. Every time I have to touch Python to mess around with anything going on in the ML space, it just feels so clunky, in ways that Ruby feels like it wouldn’t have trouble with. I think r_thanbapillai’s top level comment is spot on. Ruby became a “web” language because of the singular focus on Rails (at least in the west) which hampered its growth in other areas. It’s not so much the language that makes a community but the libraries people are inspired to build with it. Python specialized in the “right” thing for its moment in the sun. I do think we're slowly seeing Julia or other more purpose built tools slowly eating python’s numpy lunch.